I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 136 The Upside-down Coffin_1

Chapter 136: Chapter 136 The Upside-down Coffin_1

Seizing the moment when Shadow One was distracted, you snatched the bottle filled with Blood Evil from her hands and deftly spread out a stack of Talisman Paper in a row, quickly drawing thirty-two Magic Seals on them with the Blood Evil from the bottle.

Compared to the bewilderment of others, astonishment flickered across the Saintess’s face because, as you drew the twentieth Magic Seal, her gentle voice inadvertently blurted out, "The Thirty-two Earth Evil Array, quite an ambitious move."

After finishing the last Magic Seal, you glanced coldly at the delicate face of the Saintess. At this moment, in your eyes, this woman was no different from the maggots in a dung pit!

Perhaps others hadn’t noticed, but you had caught that glimpse of cunning in the Saintess’s eyes as she lowered her head!

Having completed thirty-two Magic Seals, you immediately told Sun Lin and Du Xishan, "Professor, you both fall back! This place is not some ancient relic at all; it’s a man-eating trap!"

As Du Xishan and Sun Lin slowly retreated toward the passage, you stood up and fanned the Talisman Papers in your hands like a deck of playing cards before flinging them forward.

Guided by a strange force, the thirty-two Talisman Papers began to whirl around rapidly, centered on the black mist.

You then formed five consecutive Hand Seals and muttered to yourself for a moment, after which the thirty-two Talisman Papers dispersed once more, arranging themselves into a Talisman Formation around the center of the black mist.

Each Talisman began to emit a blood-red glow, and as it flickered more rapidly, sweat beads started trickling down your forehead.

The purity of the Blood Evil contained in the Shadow Guard’s bottle exceeded your expectations, and the Vitality required to drive The Thirty-two Earth Evil Array was even more immense!

If you had known, you wouldn’t have tried to show off earlier.

Such a thought suddenly crossed your mind.

Of course, you quickly squashed it, because, as you had said earlier, all of you were grasshoppers tied to the same string, thriving or perishing together.

"Roar!"

Thirty-two Talisman Papers ignited with blood-red flames simultaneously, the flames quickly linked together, covering toward the black mist at the center!

The blood-colored flames seemed like a beast from Hell itself, opening its massive jaws that appeared capable of devouring everything, biting down hard on the black mist!

"Ying—"

It was that eerie sound again!

The flames and the black mist condensed into a head and entangled rapidly with one another, tumbling and tearing at each other!

The black mist was even more formidable than you had imagined. As you fully controlled the Talisman Formation, your complexion grew paler, and sweat continued to drip from your forehead.

Shadow One and Shadow Six exchanged glances, and Shadow Six divided the Blood Evil into two parts, pouring it onto their respective knife blades. They then used their own blood as a catalyst and activated the Blood Slaughter Knife!

Seeing them do so, the Saintess’s smile widened even further, looking all the more malevolent.

"Master Li, we’ll lend you a hand!"

With a fierce cry, they turned into two red streaks of light, swiftly lunging at the beastly head that had formed from the black mist and was gnawing at the blood-red flames!

Shadow One and Shadow Six simultaneously thrust their Blood Slaughter Knives into the head of the black mist, causing its form to stagger, and you seized this opportunity to bite your tongue fiercely, sending countless sparks shooting from your eyes as the two Mysterious Seals flashed at the same time!

"Roar—"

The blood-colored flames let out an angry roar and viciously bit down on the black mist!

"Retreat!"

Upon hearing your shout, Shadow One and Shadow Six quickly pulled back. Just as they cleared the range of the blood-colored flames, the black mist emitted the strange "Ying—" sound once more.

However, at this point, its volume had halved, and it was quickly consumed by the blood-colored flames.

Once the black mist had vanished, you too collapsed onto the ground, and the blood-colored flames flickered out chaotically.

Sigh—

You let out a long breath, but the moment you raised your head, you froze.

Your mouth slightly agape, two small canine teeth naturally peeked out. Of course, the people nearby didn’t have time to appreciate your sexy little canines. Like you, they were all staring ahead with a mix of horror and fear etched on their faces!

What was that?

A coffin?

A coffin made of white jade!

Most crucially, the coffin was standing upright!

At each of the coffin’s four corners sat a person. They weren’t skeletons but flesh-and-blood individuals, or should I say, corpses!

From the looks of it, this appeared to be a legal burial. As the saying goes, "Three years of searching for the dragon, a decade of locating the acupuncture points"; a coffin placed upright like this is called in feng shui terms a "dragonfly touching the water spot," usually found only in a feng shui treasure land. The purpose was to utilize the yin house’s feng shui to make the descendents’ family prosperous and wealthy. Moreover, the buried in ancient times were mostly imperial aristocrats or nobles.

But this place was different!

It was a confined space, and the surrounding area was extremely yin-laden, which led you to deduce that if the coffin wasn’t empty, then it certainly contained an extremely terrifying zombie!

Or even monsters!

You suddenly remembered a scrap of information you had come across in a page of a damaged book earlier. It mentioned another explanation for an upside-down coffin.

An upside-down coffin signified not merely an upright burial, but one where the deceased was buried head down!

Such a place could only be a dragon vein or certain death!

If the dead absorbed spiritual energy or death energy head down, after some time of refining in the coffin, their flesh might grow scales, and ultimately they would transform into dragons!

Oh my goodness!

The thought that inside might lay a monster soon to transform into a dragon made your legs nearly buckle!

Meanwhile, Shadow One and Shadow Six were not focused on the massive white jade coffin.

They had spotted a stunningly beautiful woman seated next to the coffin, seemingly intact. With her eyes tightly shut, she sat cross-legged with her back against the coffin.

Seeing them about to approach, you quickly intervened, "Wait."

The Saintess scoffed, "You aren’t thinking of stopping us, are you?"

"Not at all." You had no intention of getting into a fight with Shadow One and Shadow Six, especially since you couldn’t beat them, "It’s just, we’d better act together, all four of us. Disrupting the balance unilaterally wouldn’t be good. Right now, although it’s unclear what exactly is inside this coffin, one thing I am certain of—we absolutely mustn’t awaken it!"

Shadow One asked in a neutral tone, "What’s Master Li’s plan? We’ll do our best to cooperate."

You glanced at the Saintess and said to Shadow One, "We four, from four different directions, will pull these four individuals out at the same time."

"Okay."

Without a word, the Saintess walked to the other side. Her target was a man dressed in Tang Dynasty attire, sitting cross-legged with a jade flute resting in his hands.

Shadow One’s target was the exquisite beauty on the coffin lid. Her brilliantly crafted luo skirt and the jade bracelet on her left wrist were their ultimate goals.

As for you, you faced the bottom of the coffin, where a withered old man sat. He was dressed in standard Shang Dynasty attire, with a top and lower skirt, and wore a hat, suggesting that he must have been an aristocrat in the Shang Dynasty. Unlike the others, he held nothing valuable in his hands but a wine jar containing a black stone.

Yes, a black stone!

This black stone was incredibly similar to the one Shitou Zhang had given you earlier!